How do ALL of my conversations somehow end up about Star Trek? I admit, this is hugely long, and I tried to edit out a little of the fluff, but I would like to show you how any conversation can be forcibly warped into a discussion about Star Trek (at least this is one of the ones that doesn't involve scary speculation on Wesely Crusher's sex life):

Adrienne: In Orgazmo they had a naked mariachi band. That could be the gimmick for Peniz.
Adrienne: Trey Parker wrote it. It's basically about a Jehovah's Witness who ends up in a superhero porn that becomes a surprise mainstream box-office hit.
Phoemeister: I'm up for anything with a Jehovah's Witness
Adrienne: I had the shock of my life a year or so ago when two of them came up to my door and I realized that the guy had been a grade ahead of me in high school.
Phoemeister: eerie
Phoemeister: I guess I'm lucky I live in the middle of nowhere, I don't think I've ever had to deal with one
Adrienne: Also it looked like he was being tested because it was him and a young woman and there were two older men on the sidewalk watching.
Phoemeister: there were these creepy regular christians, though, at ISU who would stand in places you had to pass to get to class and force people to take tiny bibles from them.
Adrienne: My friends got me out of it. One of them came downstairs, kissed me on the cheek, and said dinner was getting cold.
Phoemeister: Wow. I bet they beat him because he couldn't convert you
Phoemeister: You should feel bad for that
Adrienne: Female friend, did I mention?
Phoemeister: lol
Adrienne: Hell no, I don't feel bad for it. It's his own damn fault he got in with those weird no-caffeine no-alcohol walk-all-the-time peoples.
Adrienne: I took some of their literature though. It was really scary.
Phoemeister: I bet. Even Morman literature freaks me out, and they're slightly less freaky than Jehovah's Witnesses.
Adrienne: There was an article about a boy who broke away from the church and had what sounded to me like a normal college experience (dyed his hair blue, played the guitar in a band, went out to bars) but then realized the "error of his ways" and returned.
Adrienne: It actually used the phrase "error of his ways".
Phoemeister: lol
Phoemeister: that's the best
Adrienne: Mormons are not as scary as JWs.
Phoemeister: It all depends on the intensity, for mormons. I've known mormons that are pretty much the same as regular people, and then I've known ones that go on at great length about baptizing corpses after people die because the person refused to get baptized when they were alive :P
Adrienne: ...that's creepy.
Adrienne\: Ooh, that gives me the jibblies.
Phoemeister: yeah. I swear, I had a friend who started going into that stuff at a friend's sleepover for her 16th birthday. Everyone but her and me was like, a regular christian, and I was the only not really anything. And she just got into this whole thing about mormans and how there's levels of heaven, so that technically if hitler repented he could be on the lowest level of heaven, and regular christians would be like in a medium level of heaven, but only mormons got to get into the kickass level of heaven.
Phoemeister: And the corpse baptized people wouldn't get to go to kickass heaven because they weren't good mormons when they were alive, but because a mormon went and got them baptized, at least they wouldn't go to hell :P
Phoemeister: anyways, we were all horrified
Adrienne: I've actually heard that theory. Bunch of hooey, of course, but if it makes them happy...
Adrienne: I think they're all coming back as bees.
Phoemeister: And like, not that long after that she stopped hanging out with us because she spent all her time at a mormon church. But I've known regular people mormons too
Phoemeister: LOL
Phoemeister: that would be funny
Phoemeister: bees also try to come to your house uninvited
Adrienne: Exactly.
Adrienne: Not to mention that hive-mind thing that some sects of Christianity seem to have going on.
Phoemeister: oooh
Phoemeister: so that was a very good comparison
Phoemeister: go you
Adrienne: Is it sad that I've thought about that a lot?
Phoemeister: nah
Phoemeister: people MAKE you think about it a lot
Adrienne: That's true.
Phoemeister: if they weren't always hive minding you and trying to give you tiny bibles, you wouldn't think about it that much
Adrienne: I was just thinking about the endless crap that so many of them spew without thinking about it and that made me think of the Borg and hive minds and bees.
Phoemeister: yeah, I have to say, when you said hive mind I instantly went to Borg
Phoemeister: that's just how I roll
Adrienne: What can I say? The Borg are a fantastic idea. Just the number of metaphors that they represent...I don't even like to get into it, because I don't know where to start.
Phoemeister: I bet Jehovah's witnesses hate star trek
Phoemeister: because 1) they hate everything
Phoemeister: but 2) it's this world where most of the time everyone's happy and getting along and yet there's no religion to tell them what to do
Phoemeister: yeah. They are good for that
Adrienne: That's true. At least in Star Wars there's the Force.
Adrienne: I never really thought about how non-religious Star Trek is, actually.
Phoemeister: I bet they think the force is blasphemy, though
Adrienne: They think coffee is blasphemy.
Phoemeister: Well, I hadn't either until we were talking about it. But it really is like "best case scenario" for how our world could turn out like in a lot of ways, i think.
Adrienne: That's true. There are, like, no problems on Earth.
Phoemeister: I mean, ST was launched in the 60's and there's a russian and a black woman and a chinese guy. It's like the most harmonious society.
Adrienne: That's true. Although the aliens were underrepresented.
Phoemeister: yeah. And not really differentiated from normal people very much. I love the DS9 episode where they splice in footage from the original tribble episode, and all the klingons are basically these vaguely arabic looking men, and they look at Worf and are like, "What happened?" and he's like, "We don't like to talk about it."
Adrienne: AAAA, that's like my FAV episode of DS9!
Phoemeister: me too!
Adrienne: :oD
Phoemeister: I like all the lines from it too. "Do they still sing of the great tribble hunts?"
Phoemeister: "Maybe I was meant to be my own grandfather!"
Adrienne: Who was that again?
Phoemeister: the last one? Bashir
Phoemeister: he was all hot for some woman
Phoemeister: and trying to justify hooking up with her to someone
Adrienne: Ahh, that's right.
Phoemeister: Have you ever seen the futurama where it turns out that Fry really IS his own grandfather?
Phoemeister: good stuff :P
Adrienne: "What Klingons?" "Those Klingons over there." "...those are Klingons?" "Okay, I think you've had enough."
Adrienne: Yeah, that was a great episode.
Phoemeister: I actually have a tribble
Phoemeister: not that long after that episode they sold a whole bunch of them in bookstores with this little pamphlet on tribbles
Phoemeister: My tribble has a thing in it so that if you squeeze it it makes a tribble sound
Adrienne: Sweetness!
Phoemeister: I know! and the little pamphlet is cool too, it has all known info on tribbles
Adrienne: I love those kinds of things. Non-Trekkies think we're freaks.
Phoemeister: I do too. I'm not the type to like, learn klingon or anything, but it is fun to know little things like that

Yeah. Screw them, though. We're having more fun.
Adrienne: Exactly. I have a Klingon dictionary, but I don't speak it. It's just for reference.
Phoemeister: lol
Phoemeister: that's great